If dualism is reasonably correct, one version is that a person is an immortal personality entangled with a human avatar for this lifetime. You can use other words, but after all of the handwaving about spirit versus personality, if immortal is right ... whatever it takes to make peace with your worldview, that is the root concept.
I accept that definition because the cosmology implied by it helps me model EVP. It also helps me make sense of why people serve their human's best interest above their spiritual progression. As understanding about the dual nature of consciousness and cognition emerges, it is also in agreement with contemporary science.
The concept is echoed in the article I referenced. It is what has been taught for the last 6,000 years by spiritual wayshowers. It is what we are being told today via contemporary mediums and practitioners and some philosophers. I am just an aggregator and reporter.
I would put the concept in the "wait and see" folder because of likely cultural contamination except for the fact that it informs such a successful metaphysical model. For instance, the Greeks pretty much obliterated the hermetic teaching.
To make sense of the metaphysics and implied cosmology, it is necessary to stop thinking like a human and begin thinking as an immortal personality. Until we are able to "... separate the Earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, by means of a gentle heat, and with great ingenuity" as taught by Hermes in the Emerald Tablet, we will live this lifetime as human motivated only by human instincts.
This is not a religious concept. Right or wrong, and by whatever terms you wish, it is a useful way of approaching a more humane society.
At the very least, it provides ample food for thought. It is the stuff that old people like me dwell on as we face their mortality (or immortality, depending on who is right. :-)
I accept that definition because the cosmology implied by it helps me model EVP. It also helps me make sense of why people serve their human's best interest above their spiritual progression. As understanding about the dual nature of consciousness and cognition emerges, it is also in agreement with contemporary science.
The concept is echoed in the article I referenced. It is what has been taught for the last 6,000 years by spiritual wayshowers. It is what we are being told today via contemporary mediums and practitioners and some philosophers. I am just an aggregator and reporter.
I would put the concept in the "wait and see" folder because of likely cultural contamination except for the fact that it informs such a successful metaphysical model. For instance, the Greeks pretty much obliterated the hermetic teaching.
To make sense of the metaphysics and implied cosmology, it is necessary to stop thinking like a human and begin thinking as an immortal personality. Until we are able to "... separate the Earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, by means of a gentle heat, and with great ingenuity" as taught by Hermes in the Emerald Tablet, we will live this lifetime as human motivated only by human instincts.
This is not a religious concept. Right or wrong, and by whatever terms you wish, it is a useful way of approaching a more humane society.
At the very least, it provides ample food for thought. It is the stuff that old people like me dwell on as we face their mortality (or immortality, depending on who is right. :-)
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